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...combat such practices, justified on the grounds of expediency, College architect Nelson Aldrich was employed to draw up a master plan to guide the use and development of land and buildings. While he and his staff began surveying present patterns of usage in Spring, 1960, the President formed a Long-Range Committee to study and suggest ways of ameliorating Radcliffe's physical plant. Under her supervision as chairman, the Committee includes several College officials, among them Frances R. Brown, Dean of Residence and Student Affairs, and Kathleen O. Elliott, Dean of Instruction...
...orbit once around the earth. He also knew that the elapsed time of the flight was 89 minutes, and could thus figure that the earth rotated on its axis 22½° in this time. Using these figures and constructing the orbit on a transparent globe, Chapin, a trained architect and self-trained geographer, decided that Gagarin had to land in the vicinity of Smelovka. Q.E.D...
Most dramatic element of what Scot tish Architect Sir Basil Spence calls his "prayer in stone" is the contrast between the starkly modern new building of pink sandstone (on the outside) and cool concrete (on the inside) and the bombed ruins, which will form a kind of entrance to the cathedral. They will be kept as they are-grass and gravel where the pews once stood-and linked to the new structure by a covered arch...
Just how Miró manages to get so roiled up is something of a mystery, for his own life remains as methodical as an engineer's blueprint. He wakes at 5, meditates for a while, and then, in measured steps, proceeds to his white studio, designed by U.S. Architect (and fellow Catalonian) José Luis Sert. There, surrounded by favorite shapes and objects-a rotting rudder, a rusting anchor, a decaying sheet of metal, bits of pottery, and some toy turtles-he contemplates for about an hour. "By this time," says he, "I am filled with fury...
Died. David Lynn, 87, the Federal Government's Capitol architect from 1923 to 1954, who did no designing himself but supervised everything from tidying up between sessions of Congress to refurbishing of the House and Senate Chambers and construction of the Supreme Court Building; of arteriosclerosis; in Washington...